SQL Exercise Answers

SQL Exercises based on the staff table
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SQL statement based on the staff table :

(1) Display all staff with a beatles.com email address from the staff table. This will require the use of the LIKE statement

SELECT CONCAT(first_name, last_name) as name FROM staff WHERE email LIKE ‘%beatles.com’

(2) Count the staff with an authors.com email address from the staff table. You may need to look up on the internet the use of the COUNT statement as used in SQL.

SELECT COUNT(last_name) FROM staff
WHERE email LIKE ‘%authors.com’

(3) Display the staff who have a registration_date before the start of the year 2000

SELECT last_name FROM staff WHERE registration_date > ‘2000-01-01’

(4) Display the staff who have a registration date between the start of the year 2001 and the end of the year 2008. You may need to look up on the internet the use of the BETWEEN statement as used in SQL.

SELECT last_name FROM staff WHERE registration_date BETWEEN ‘2001-01-01’ AND ‘2008-11-31’

SQL Exercises based on the Person, Student Grade and Course tables
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SQL statements based on the courses tables

(1) Display all the courses from the course table that have credits of 4

SELECT title FROM course WHERE credits = 4

(2) Display all the courses from the course table that have credits of either 3, 4 or 5. This will require the use of the IN statement which you will need to look up on the internet.

SELECT title FROM course WHERE credits IN (3,4,5)

(3) Display the department name from the department table with a budget greater than 20000

SELECT name FROM department WHERE budget > 20000

(4) Display the course title and department name that each department is running. You will need to combine the two tables together using an INNER JOIN which you may want to look up on the internet.